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Symposium on atomic energy and its implications : a reprint of papers read at the historic Joint Meeting of The American Philosophical Society and The National Academy of Sciences November 16 and 17, 1945 / with a foreword by John P. Holdren.
Van Pelt Library Q11 .P6 v.113:pt.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Holdren, John P., author of foreword.
- Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986, author.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967, author.
- Stone, Robert S., 1895-1966, author.
- Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954, author.
- Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995, author.
- Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981, author.
- Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008, author.
- Willits, Joseph H. (Joseph Henry), 1889- author.
- Viner, Jacob, 1892-1970, author.
- Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965, author.
- Langmuir, Irving, 1881-1957, author.
- Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962, author.
- Conference Name:
- Symposium on Atomic Energy and its Implications (1945 : Philadelphia)
- Series:
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; new ser., v. 113, pt. 2.
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9746 ; volume 113, part 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear energy--Congresses.
- Nuclear energy.
- Atomic bomb--Congresses.
- Atomic bomb.
- Nuclear energy--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Atomic bomb--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Genre:
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 157 pages : illustrations (black and white), charts ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society Press, June 2024
- Summary:
- "On November 16-17, 1945 -- barely three months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- a joint meeting of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences was convened in Philadelphia to showcase reflections on "atomic energy and its implications" by a dozen of this country's most eminent natural and social scientists. In addition to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the speakers comprised physics and chemistry Nobelists Arthur Compton, Enrico Fermi, Irving Langmuir, Harold Urey, and Eugene Wigner; physicists Henry DeWolf Smyth and John Archibald Wheeler; Chicago Met Lab health director Robert Stone; prominent University of Chicago economist Jacob Viner; Rockefeller Foundation social science head Joseph Willits; and Canadian American historian and diplomat James Shotwell. The dozen symposium lectures, which were published in the first 1946 issue of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, are being reprinted here -- at a time of understandably renewed public concern about nuclear weapons -- as a stand-alone issue of the Transactions of the society, published in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Press." -- John P. Holden, Foreword
- Contents:
- Foreword / John P. Holdren
- Fifty Years of Atomic Physics / H.D. Smyth
- Atomic Weapons / J.R. Oppenheimer
- Health Protection Activities for the Plutonium Project / Robert S. Stone
- The Development of the First Chain Reacting Pile / Enrico Fermi
- Resonance Reactions / Eugene P. Wigner
- Methods and Objectives in the Seperation of Isotopes / Harold C. Urey
- Problems and Prospects in Elementary Particle Research / John Archibald Wheeler
- Social Adjustments to Atomic Energy / Joseph H. Willits
- The Implications of the Atomic Bomb for International Relations / Jacob Viner
- The Control of Atomic Energy under the Charter / James T. Shotwell
- World Control of Atomic Energy / Irving Langmuir
- Atomic Energy as a Human Asset / Arthur H. Compton
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Reprint of symposium proceedings previously published by The American Philosophical Society in 1946.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 1446565219
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